<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run  From slaves that apes would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10499]]></link><description><![CDATA[You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run  From slaves that apes would men!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a little rum The less you take the better  Pour it in the lakes   Of Wener or of Wetter.    Dip a spoonful out     And mind you don't get groggy,      Pour it in the lake       Of Winnipissiogie.        Stir the mixture well         Lest it prove inferior,          Then put half a drop           Into Lake Superior.            Every other day             Take a drop in water,              You'll be better soon               Or at least you oughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been more involved in football in the last one-and-a-half months here than I have been in the entire year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been more involved in football in the last one-and-a-half months here than I have been in the entire year,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes;  Though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes;  Though it do well, I do not relish well   Their loud applause and aves vehement,    Nor do I think the man of safe discretion     That does not affect it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holies of themselves a shape As of an arbor took.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12469]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54045]]></link><description><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look through gloom and storm-drift Beyond the years:  The soul would have no rainbow   Hard the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58791]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look through gloom and storm-drift Beyond the years:  The soul would have no rainbow   Hard the eyes no tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not determined by majority vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not determined by majority vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins on the vicious member,   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57245]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me reste.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Donald H. McGannon -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19885]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15377]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard winter on us financially.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've been unwilling to sell to date, and I don't see what would have changed their mind at this point in the game. You could make the argument that they are in turnaround, and selling now might be at the bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing], ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28942]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing],]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent,  Nor aim beyond our pow'r;   For, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent,  Nor aim beyond our pow'r;   For, if our stock be very small,    'Tis prudent to enjoy it all,     Nor lose the present hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we use that term and link it with something like wrestling, that's saying that the midget is part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we use that term and link it with something like wrestling, that's saying that the midget is part of the entertainment, so it kind of reinforces the legacy of people of short stature being used in entertainment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deal with temptation by yielding to it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deal with temptation by yielding to it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58627</guid></item></channel></rss>